These steps should have been mentioned in the prerequisites of the Laravel Installation Guide, since I'm surely not the only person trying to get Laravel running on macOS.
Install Mcrypt using Homebrew and PECL (comes with PHP)
# PHP 7.3
$ brew install mcrypt
$ pecl install mcrypt-1.0.3
Find your php.ini
:
$ php -i | grep "Loaded Configuration File"
Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini
Add this line to your php.ini
:
extension=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.3.x/pecl/20180731/mcrypt.so
Install Mcrypt using Homebrew
# PHP 7
$ brew install php70-mcrypt
# PHP 5
$ brew install php56-mcrypt --without-homebrew-php
Add this line to /private/etc/php.ini
:
# PHP 7
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php70-mcrypt/7.0.x/mcrypt.so"
# PHP 5
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php56-mcrypt/5.6.x/mcrypt.so"
You are ready to go!
Upgrade Mcrypt using Homebrew
$ brew reinstall -fs php71-mcrypt
Hi there! I solved this problem in Mac using Mojave. I had a Laravel mcrypt dependency. I did this:
mcrypt will be included, however, I did too many changes to you may also need to install mcrypt by doing this:
If you still don't have mcrypt available, then:
restart your brew apache using "sudo apachectl restart" and done!